SSH Access for your Cluster

Up until this point we have just learned how to configure, provision, and destroy our cluster. In this episode we will access the cluster by jumping into our bastion.

This episode assumes that you have correctly setup the ssh-keys in your infrastructure configuration.

Getting the right Address

To ssh into the bastion node, you'll need to find the node on your AWS console and select the public DNS address.

Copy the public IPv4 address and paste it in the command line:

$ ssh ubuntu@ec2-54-254-197-71.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com

You should be able to jump into the bastion and jump to the bootstrap node from here.

Jumping into the Compute Node

All your containers are running inside your compute nodes, so to access them you'll need to jump in. We'll use the private ip address for this.

Head over to the node you want to jump into and copy the Private IPv4 address and type in:

$ ssh ubuntu@the-private-ip-address

You should be able to jump into the node. You can run the lxc list --all-projects and you should see an output with the uplink node.